Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

A LONER’S STORYA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Denis Johnson’s atmospheric novella, Train Dreams, is set in the early 1900s in the American West. Arriving in the Idaho wilderness as a young orphan, Robert Grainier comes of age, makes a living as a logger and slowly awakens to the changes of a new century. Grainier marries and becomes a father, only to lose his little...